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Arnolds Mill, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ghent town. It lies in ZIP code area 12037. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chatham quadrangle.

Arnolds Mill within Columbia County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Arnolds Mill, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Arnolds Mill, surveyed 1903

On record in Arnolds Mill

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Arnolds Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 163 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 11 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Debris and open burning35
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
25 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Arnolds Mill: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Manganese, Iron, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gott-Mesick Bog Mn OccurrenceManganese, IronProducer
Gott-Mesick Bog Mn OccurrenceManganese, IronPast Producer
Gott-Mesick Bog Mn OccurrenceManganesePast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Buckleyville0.6 miles23
Ghent1.4 miles23
Moorhouse Corner1.4 miles23
Chatham1.6 miles23
Spencertown2.9 miles23
Rock City4.4 miles21
Golden Acres4.5 miles21
Red Rock4.6 miles23

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122591886The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972178. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.